#Critical

Elon Musk Clubhouse thread Elon says he entered a pretty deep existential depression very young re: the big questions, e.g. "why are we here? why do we exist?" Found Douglas
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New ThreadPreface: To my own credit, I'm by no means a "religious scholar" as I know many folks out there have their own unique pieces of history that they carry
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Thread alert. Mumbai's #COVID19 story: A 1hr long video interview of @mybmc's IS Chahal with Dr Shashank Joshi and Dr Harish Shetty. Key takeaways from this @OneMDHealth video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vEDfCAQyvs The change
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By the late 19th century, connections between Iran and China were mediated not by overland trade networks or shared historical memory, but rather the networks of European colonialism. This had
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Women spending their own money in pursuit of justice and clarity about the law.Its a scandal says AidanAidan says you must only give your money to official women's rights organisations
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Last week we looked at Juan Lafaille's demonstration of T cell regulation in the EAE system. Now here's another side of Treg history- it starts, of course with an experimentally
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Wdn't put it exactly this way. Agree with Amy Chua's contention that tribalism's a natural human behavior, but many of us belong to multiple overlapping, different tribes, which diversify our
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When it comes to wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for #COVID surveillance, people ask the same question: How come it hasn’t been used before? Well, it has been. Here are a few
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Thread: In January 2018, Prime Minister Modi said economic protectionism "can’t be considered lesser risk than terrorism or climate change.” Yet India is now firmly on the path of import-substitution
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On September 24, 2019, it was quite clear: flipping the House blue in those critical midterms in 2018 gave us an opportunity to save our democracy.In this excellent archival story
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.@BBCThree was the 1st major TV channel to close its broadcast platform & reinvent itself online. 4 years on @BBC is considering bringing it back to linear TV. My new
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A few tweets to celebrate the fantastic efforts of various @UniofNottingham teams behind the scenes over the last few weeks. Indulge me. @aardvarknsefce likened the Covid shutdown at UoN to
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Thread: Tomorrow, the @HighCourtofAus will deliver judgment in Comcare v Banerji (@LaLegale). It is one of the most important free speech (implied freedom of political communication) cases to be determined
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hopping back on. with a lengthy recess like this, the prudent and collegial thing for the parties to do would be to confer and try to stipulate to as much
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There has been quite a bit of coverage today about the so-called “rough sex defence”, which the government is claiming credit for abolishing.This is a difficult and sensitive subject, but
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Alrighty folxxx, you asked for it. Here’s my thread on @Hpluckrose’s instant classic, “How French ‘Intellectuals’ Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact.” Originally published at Areo, lucky enough to
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